Preliminary Program of the Boston Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

CONTENTS Preliminary Program of the Boston Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ................... 737 Our Food from the Waters: PROFESSOR W. A. HERDMAN .................................... 740 Reform in Sydney University: PROFESSOR PERCIVAL R. COLE .......................... 749 T. Nishikawa, 1874-1909: PROFESSOR BASHFORD DEAN ...................................... 750 The American Society of Zoologists: PROFESSOR LORANDE Loss WOODRUFF ......... 750 Scientific Notes and News ................. 750 University and Educational News .......... 754 Discussion and Correspondence:The Endowment of Men and Women, a Check to the Institutional "Exploitation" of Genius: PROFESSOR ALEXANDER F. CHAMBERLAIN. The Kumbainggeri, Turrubul, Kaiabara and Mycoolon Tribes of Australia: R. H. MATHEWS. Uniformity in English Abbreviations: JOHN N. JAMES. The Indiscriminate Killing of Musk Oxen: DR. G. R. WIELAND ...................... 754 Scientific Books:Driesch's Science and Philosophy of the Organism, Strecker's Das Kausalitatsproblem der Biologie: PROFESSOR A. 0. LOVEJOY. Lankester's Treatise on Zoology: DR. A. E. ORTMANN. Von Reichenbach's Paleozoologie: PROFESSOR CHARLES SCHUCHERT. Maclaurin on Light: PROFESSOR R. W. WOOD ........................................ 761 Recent Vielws of L. Cuenot on the Origin of Species by Mutation ................... 768 Special Articles:The Question of Viviparity in Fundulus Majalis: DR. H. H. NEWMAN. Devices for Changing the Timbre of Musical Instruments: E. H. HAWLEY. The Pickens County Meteorite: S. W. MCCALLIE. Some Conditions favoring Nitrification in Soils: PROFESSOR T. LYTTLETON LYON and JAS. A. BIZZELL ............................ 7769 The National Academy of Sciences ......... 774 Societies and Academies:The Newv York Academy of Sciences-Section of Anthropology and Psychology: PROFESSOR R. S. WOODWORTH. The New York Section of the American Chemical Society: DR. C. M. JOYCE. The Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society of the University of North Carolina: PROFESSOR A. S. WHEELER .. .... 775 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM OF THE BOSTON MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE